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As More Americans Embrace Anxiety Treatment, RFK Jr. Derides Medications

Anxiety medication use rose from 11.7% to 14.3% of American adults between 2019 and 2024, driven by telehealth access and social factors, amid debate on SSRI safety.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticized the broadening use of anxiety medications, but doctors and researchers say the MAHA movement is misrepresenting drugs that have been proven to help.

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After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was feeling anxious. It wasn't the manageable restlessness that had been a part of her life for years, but something deeper and harder to ignore. She said that “every little annoyance, like a sore knee, made me think: This is the end of the road for me.” So Zapp, 40, a communications director in New York, became one of the millions of Americans who h…

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